the bone conductor

but it really feels like bob the angry flower has been mailing it in for months now. i just reread the three collections i have, and comparing them to the latest stuff… it seems like the newer stuff is being done by someone who’s just trying to fill up some space between the covers of the next book. and i really, really like notley/bob, so i’m hoping maybe this is just a temporary thing, but i dunno.

as opposed to, say, my man over at 8-bit theatre, who has some super bitchin’ robot interlude thing going on at the moment. i don’t know what the hell it is, but he’s got about 10 pages up so far, and i want more. i’m a little jealous - i’ve had a smartass-robot-detective story sitting in the incubator for a while now, which may or may not involve robot lycanthropy, which i’m sure now that i said that in public someone smart will have an awesome robot detective werewolf agency movie out by the end of next month just to make me feel like an ass. anyway, it’s cool.

while we’re at it, overcompensating continues to rule, diesel sweeties seems awfully stale, the new wigu is kind of eh, and goats remains one of the consistently best web comics out there, even if the story line is so bizarre now that trying to follow what’s going on will quite possibly render one’s brain into a quiverying gelatinous mass of randomly firing axons. and the reason penny-arcade sits atop the heap is because it deserves to. those fuckers.

also, this guy is a good writer. just in case anyone, you know… forgot.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080329td.html

from the studs at improbable research, natch. (fun fact: improbable seems to be one of those words that, once you take a second to look at it, will never look like it’s spelled correctly again.)

and yet i find myself a fan of this guy. it’s like he took the old david letterman top ten driving tips (”come to a complete stop before trying to escape on foot”) to heart. and how can that be a bad thing?